At least 50 people, including 15 children, are confirmed to have died following flash floods in central Texas, authorities have said, as rescuers continued a frantic search for people who were still missing.

BRICS leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro are expected to decry US President Donald Trump's "indiscriminate" trade tariffs, saying they are illegal and risk hurting the global economy.

Irish consumers are used to paying more than their European counterparts for electricity, writes Consumer Affairs Correspondent Aengus Cox.

When the US warplane dropped a 4,400kg atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and 43 seconds later it detonated 600 metres above the city, eight-year-old Teruko Yahata was playing in her garden on what was a sunny August morning in 1945.

More than 600 Palestinians have been killed and more than 4,000 wounded attempting to access aid from the Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, according to international NGOs, writes Yvonne Murray.